EHRI Webinar | 19 February 2025 | 3:00 PM CET | On Zoom

Placing the Holocaust is a multi-modal website that combines a GIS-based mapping platform with a semantic search engine for exploring postwar testimonies. Built by an interdisciplinary team based at the University of Maine, the website aims to stimulate and support geographical Holocaust research. This presentation will explain the goals and challenges of creating a digital gazetteer and detailed datasets of over 2,200 SS camps and ghettos in German-occupied Eastern Europe, identifying places of experience in 977 testimonies, and attempting to link between the two kinds of information.

Anne Kelly Knowles has been a leading figure in the Digital and Spatial Humanities, particularly in the methodologies of Historical GIS, for more than twenty years. She has written or edited five books, including Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (2008); Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868 (2013); and Geographies of the Holocaust (2014). Anne’s pioneering work with historical GIS has been recognized by many fellowships and awards, including the American Ingenuity Award for Historical Scholarship (Smithsonian magazine, 2012), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and three successive Digital Humanities Advancement grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2016-2022). She is a founding member of the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, an international group of historians and geographers who explore the spatial aspects of the Holocaust through digital scholarship. She is currently developing a public website to share data on over 2,200 Holocaust camps and ghettos and nearly 1,000 survivor testimonies to enable students and scholars to map the historical geographies of named and unnamed Holocaust places.

Featured Image: Map by Maja Kruse and Anne Kelly Knowles, 2024.

Topic: EHRI Webinar: Placing the Holocaust: A website built for exploration
Time: Feb 19, 2025 03:00 PM Prague Bratislava
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